In general, the organization of genes in bacteria is different from that in eukaryotes. In E

coli, approximately 27 percent of all genes are organized into contiguous, functionally related units containing multiple genes under coordinate control that are transcribed as a single unit. Such contiguous gene families are called ________.
A) operons
B) pseudogenes
C) contigs
D) proteomes
E) transcriptomes


A

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